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Opinion
Giving confidence to return to work
The founders of Women Returners and STEM Returners on why their new partnership is vital to helping people back into STEM after a career break.
Vexed concept of a ‘foetal microbiome’ refuted
A team of international experts has refuted scientific claims that human foetuses harbour live microbes during healthy pregnancies.
Manufacturing certainty on the origin of Covid-19 is damaging to science
Alina Chan reveals why it’s dangerous to insist that the lab leak theory is dead in the water.
Engineering viruses to make the world a more dangerous place
Virologists should think thrice before embarking on gain of function experiments
The power and value of scientific societies
The fluctuating professional environment often results in ‘support turbulence’ – the unpredictability of help, encouragement, and assistance provided by mentors, colleagues, community, and institutions.
Infections in the White House: A bug’s eye view of the American presidents
Infectious diseases have dictated the length, timbre or trajectory of the terms of many past Presidents of the United States of America.
A year without antibiotics
What would it be like for a year in a world without antibiotics? Grim? Certainly. Apocalyptic? Probably not.
Should bacteriophages be included in the environmental surveillance of risks associated with antimicrobial resistance?
The contribution of phage to environmental antibiotic resistance should not be underestimated.